Tool for removing and replacing milk-bottle caps.



A. F. DEMORY. TOOL FOR REMOVING AND REPLACING MILK BOTTLE CAPS.

' APPLICATION man APn.20. 191sv 152993590. Patented Apr. 8,1919.

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I Attorneys Unrrsn s'rarns PATENT orrion ALEXANDER F. DEMORY, F HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR TO HAGERSTOWN NOVELTY COMPANY, INC., OF HAGEBSTOWN, MARYLAND, A CORPORATION OF MARYLAND.

TOOL FOR REMOVING AND REPLACING'MILK-IBOTTLE GAPS.

1,299,690. Specification of Letters Patent. t t 1919, Application filed April 20, 1915. Serial No. 22,615.

To all whom it may concern: end of a coiled spring 7 This spring eX- Be it known that I, ALEXANDER F. DEMORY, tends around the stem 3 and bears at its a citizen of the United States, residing at other end against the base 1. Hagerstown, in the county of Washington When it is desired to use the tool for the 5 and State of Maryland, have invented a new purpose of removing a disk D from the neck and useful Tool for Removing and Replacof a bottle B, the disk 1, which is equal to or ing Milk-Bottle Gaps, of which the followless than the diameter of the cap or disk D ing is a specification. is placed on said disk D, after which the This invention relates to a tool for removstem 3 is thrust downwardly. This will 10 ing and replacing cardboard disks such as cause the head 4 to pass through the disk D used for closin milk bottles and the like. and will also cause the spring 7 to be placed One of the 0' jects of the invention is to under compression. By giving the stem 3 provide a simple form of tool which is cheap a one-quarter turn, the arrow head 4 will be to manufacture and which can be readily rotated under the disk or cap D so as thus 15 thrust into engagement with a cap so that, to prevent its withdrawal through the perupon pulling on the tool, the cap will be foration formed by the arrow head. By removed from the bottle and will remain in pulling on the eye or handle 5, the disk or position on thetool whereby, when it is de- Cap D can be withdrawn from the neck of sired to replace the cap, the tool can be used h bottle B and said disk or cap D will 20 for this purpose, means being provided for obviously remain in position on the tool, it

automatically disengaging the cap from the belng clamped between the arrow head 41 and tool when said tool is moved to releasing the base or disk 1. When it is desired to reposition. place the cap or disk D within the bottle With the foregoing and other objects in neck B, the said disk D is forced upon its 25 view which will appear as the description Seat and Stem 3 is then given a one-quarter proceeds, the invention resides in the comturn so as to return the arrow head 4: into bination and arrangement of parts and in register with the perforation formed therethe details of construction hereinafter deby in the disk or cap D. By then releasing scribed and claimed, it being understood the pressure on the stem 3, the spring 7 will 30 that changes in the precise embodiment of force the disk 6 upwardly and thus cause the invention herein disclosed, can be made the stem 3 to pull the arrow head through the within the scope of what is claimed, without perforation in the cap or disk D. Thus the departing from the spirit of the invention. cap or disk D will remain upon its seat and In the accompanying drawings the prewill be freed from the tool. It will be noted 35 ferred form of the invention has been shown. that the spring 7 is so shaped that its end In said drawings convolutions constitute seats for engagement Figure 1 is a view partly in elevation and with the base 1 and the disk 6 respectively. partly in section of the tool, the parts being Thus the spring, which is constantly under shown in their normal positions. compression, maintains the stem 3 normally 40 Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view thereof. perpendicular and, after the base 1 has been Fig. 3 is a side elevation showing the relaplaced on a cap to be removed, it is merely tive positions of the parts when the tool is necessary to force the stem downwardly in thrust into engagement with the cap in a order to drive the head 4: through the disk D. milk bottle. By then turning the head a the spring 7 45 Referring to the figures by characters of when released w1ll bind the head upwardly reference 1 designates a concavo-convex disk against the disk D. The disk D and the constituting the base of the tool, this disk base 1 are thus pressed tightly together and having a central opening 2 in which a stem can be removed as one body from the milk 3 is slidably mounted. Formed upon the bottle or jar and can be as readily replaced 50 lower end of the stem is an arrow head 4 in the neck of the bottle. 7 having sharp edges and the other end of the What is claimed is stem merges into an eye 5 constituting a A tool for removing and replacing the handle. A disk 6 is secured to the stem 3 disk closures for milk bottles and the like, near the eye 5 and constitutes a seat for one including a rod formed with a handle at one end, an annular flange on the rod adjacent In testimony that I claim the foregoing the handle, a concavo-convex member slidas my own, I have hereto aflixed my signa- 10 able and rotatable on the, rod; an attenuated ture'in' the presence, of tWo Witnesses.

head formed on the rod at that end remote M I I I from the handle and having upwardly fac- ALEXANDER DEMORY' ing shoulders and a cempressionspring sur- Witnesses roundmg the rod and confined between the W. E. PATTIsoN, flange and thevconcavo-convex member. D. ELMER WOLF.

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